When renowned film director Péter Gárdos wrote the story, he intended it as a film script, but eventually he made it into a novel. “Fever at Dawn,” the love story of two Holocaust survivors―the author’s parents―has ever since sold in more than 20 territories.

1500 pages of memorable
resonances between the perceptions, emotions, thoughts, gestures and
stories of the various characters. And actually, Nádas says little more
beyond the structural beauty of parallels. Yet this is how he comes to
include so much about the Hungarian and European history of the 20th
century, about our culture and, within that, our most neuralgic regional
characteristics, our physical, psychological and social compulsions.
What he does not offer is an overarching ideology, an ideal to grant
cohesion.